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THE MORNING POST: SUNDXV, FEBRUARY 5 1903 g GOTHAMGITV GOSSIP jl Private Hospitals in Homes of the g WealtHy CHild Slavery in New g York Serious and Funny 8 Law MaKers By EMEL JAY 5 A bran new adjunct to the elaborate ?ew York residence U the private nos Dltalt Andrew Carnegie's Fifth Ave nue Place la provided with this modem convenience, and now the new Burden house just opposite In 91st street Is similarly equipped. These home-hos-pltaJs have all the appliances for emer gences. There are rooms for patients jid nurses and one marble apartment of sanitary construction Is ready for epernUons If necessary. On any day. no matter how Inclement, visitors may be seen walking all around the Carne gie place, and looking; the lmmer.e structure over from top to bottom with healthy American curiosity. A veri table palace It Is. set In ample grounds enclosed by a great fence of massive Iron spikes and stone buttresses 16 feet high- A close wire netting just on the other side of the fence protects from he intrusions of small animals, and a edge of rhododendron and cedar shield from the visual Intrusion of human bipeds. The democratic mind regents those high fences of the multimillion aire. "Why not let the place be open In all Its beauty? like the park Just Across the avenue, not like a cage for some rare and ferocious beast. Ter- haps the Carnegie. Madame and Ma damolselle. may feel that without that fence they would have no peace from prying: eyes: but glances do no Injury, and those high fences do: they seem to say to the epople: "Between you and these there Is a great gulf fixed." The Carnegie house has its imposing front on 91st street, its side e!evatlon and grounds filling a whole block on Fifth Avenue. Diagonally across 91st jstreet from Carnegie's is the Burden om now constantly talked about be cause of Its several Innovations. It appears small after looking at Its big neighbor, but It is really spacious, and Is to be extremely swell and English don't you know? for therels to be a Master of the Gate on guard In a box la the courtyard, and that Function ary will admit all who enter whether on foot or In vehicle. There are two tntes. one of massive oak. .the other' of wrought iron: and grill screens In the oaken gate make a sort of lookout for the keeper within the box. AH this ifraxid style will be used in common by the James Abercromble Burdens. Jr.. nr.d the John Jay Hamonds, who will occupy establishments of twin -elegance on each side of portentlous courtyard, the mistresses of the two homes being sisters and sure to fuss amicably. They were formerly the Misses Sioane. But it really takes more than stone masonry and Inside elegance to make a. home. Just a little way down the street, within sight of those grand mansions. Is a little old shanty at least 203 years old. It was the long-time-ago home of a Harlem Squattrt- and Is now the home of Somebody who hangs white curtains at the tiny windows. emphasizing pathetically -the general shabbfness. It stands out in singular contrast to the great structures a few feet up the street. It feeds the Imagi nation more. It holds the historic. It has known events. And now it is Just as much a home as those stone man sions perhaps more so. For the ( twin angels. Happiness and Contentment, may love better to dwell there. A f 3S.00O Hnj A IW.OCO rug! That was the highest priced article at the famous Marquand Election sale recently held in New York. It was something to have seen that rue. The amateur looked ?t it won dringly. Eleven feet lonjj and six feet or so wide, it averaged about J3.500 a. foot. It had a red medallion center Ispahan red. the catalogue called It and temple lamps at each end. With in the medallion were four birds sym metrically arranged, and amid the sur rounding green were animals of .Mos lem allegory In various poses of pur suit and combat. Over all was a rich arabesque design In silver. Thrx's all and a beautiful all. of course; but JSS.W0! There was enthusiastic bid ding, and finally it fell to one Vital Benquist. a well-satisfied purchaser who. rumor says, bought It for Senator Clarke. The rug is said to be 200 years old. The catalogue declared rr In the first place, and art collectors wild with one voice It was undoubted ly true. Moreover, the rug was among the effects of the Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey at the time of his death, and was once a gift from a Persian Emperor to an Emperor of the Turks. It is Indusputably of great value. That Is proven. But 5CS.P00! The amateur Judgment rebels. For that amount of rnor.ey. one could build a fine house and furnish it with rugs of rare beau ty. True, they would not be hundreds of years old. nor gifts from Persian to Turk. Indeed, one would stipulate that they be brand new, the mere thought of the second-hand being rpurned. All honor to Art and the Art Collector, but to the simple-mind-rd spectator. It is often a singular man!. The nania for the Marquand treasures, however, had the substan tial common-sense support "of coli cash. Besides the JCS.000 rug. an Alma Tadema. -Homer." brought J3D.0C0. A rare cloth-of.gold tapestry, "The Holy Family.- brought 521.WH). And the col lection brought, in all. the astonishing a of more than $700,000. Child ivrr l NtwTtrk Xew York's child slavery Is as bad as South Carolina's. So declared Dr. W. H. Maxwell. Superintendent of the public schools of New York. It was at the annual dinner or me Doctors of Pedagogy that the asser tion was made, and It aroused his hearers. "The children of the country by the thousands are belr.fr ruined by fhe manufacturer." said Dr. Maxwell; "child labor is illing the whole white race of the south, and things just as bad are going on right here In New York. There are parts of this city where children are driven to work early in the morning for two hours and then sent to our American schools, and after school are forced Into sweatshops where they are obliged to work from 3 In the afternoon until 11 o'clock at night." The New York legislature has Just taken up the question of child dabor. The bill pending prohibits the employ ment of children under 14 years of age, and Its friends are hopeful of Its pas sage. It has strong support from va rious philanthropic" organizations, any! personally from Governor Odell. Su perintendent Maxwell, and Commis sioner Lederle of the Health Depart ment. s A strong movement against child la bor Is being agitated everywhere. The Reichstag of Germany has just passed the 2nd reading of the bill prohibiting Tthe employment of children under 12 years of age in some branches of In dustry, and under 13 In ethers. The growing conviction obtains that the children of today are the citizens of tomorrow, and that it is the sentiment but commonsense that that protects childhood and the future of civiliza tion. Law Maker Get Fnaay The New York legislature evidently gets funny as well as serious. The perennially annual joke In the shape of a bill to tax old maids and bachelors Is about to come up again, and -the press of New York City Is vastly in ter sted. A solemn-faced young man with impressive glasses has announced that he will present the bill. Fifty dollars a year in what he thinks old maids and bachelors should pay for the privilege, and the money thus ob tained by the State he propoecs to de vote to an asylum for foundlings. .Ml of which will create a genuine ripple of amusement among New York's law makers, and the State will pay for th nrobabU expiorea. out m - from 7000 to 9000 feet high. ; Further north the mountains increase in height and the range culminates in Mount McKinley. over 20.000 feet high, and Mount Foraker, fourteen . miles to the southwest, about 17.C00 feet, There . m A .-trt frnm 10.- j are a'numoer 01 uiu . SZ. 000 to 14.C00 feet hlgn. ; Several Government expiring." par ties in the past five years have trav ersed this rugged" mountain mass and have thrown much light upon Its ge ography, climate, the distribution of timber, and the conditions of travel. The time now seems to be ripe for a descent of Mount McKinley, the great est elevation of the range. Accordlng lv to Brooks and Reabum.' though the actual ascent of the mountain may In volve no extraordinary difficulty. It will be no small undertaking to get to its base with an adequate equipment for the climb. . 1 . " The summit Is about ten miles dis tant from the western and between forty and fifty miles from the eastern margin of the mountain mass. The rh should, therefore, be made Souvenirs Principal Bermuda nlrid ustry r ' j i Tourists Ready Purchasers of Carved WorK in Wood and Shells . News Letter from Hamilton Visitors to these islands this year are finding new interesting varieties of souvenirs In the shape of curios made by the Boer prisoners of war. The prisoneis numbered several thousand at one time, and judging by the num ber of souvenirs which they turned nut nearlv all of them must have been from'the northwest, which gives reaay !inj,enjOU8 so many Connecticut Yan- kees. The ending of the nvar and the access to the base, wher Osgood grass is plentiful.-. ' . . v The summit is dome shaped, and has two "summits, two . miles apart, the southernmost being about ICoO feet higher than-the other. The northwest ern slope is drained by a large glacier which discharges Into a. river of the Yukon system. The, most feasible route to the top -of the mountain is proba bly across this glacier. The fact that the enow line is about freedom of the prisoners to go about the islands on their good behavior have put these trinkets on the market. They command a ready sale, for many visitors sympathized with the South Africans, and are 'eager for their handi work, hot alone as reminders of their visit, but from sentimental interest in the men who were imprisoned there. The Bermudas are said to be ex actly suited to those who were born 7000 feet Instead of being nearly at sea tir(J an(J haye been gettingr WOrse ever level, a at Mount St. Elias, gives the t Mount McKinley ascent a decided ad- weatRer itself Is1 lazy." The active vantage. The upper limit of ppruce w0rld i3 700 miles away, and cable tolls timber Is about 2500 feet, but willow are about 60 cents a wor(i. The raising sufficient for fuel is found up to 4000 o( orion9, potatoes and lily bulbs are feet. (the chief industries, and their inspec- Tack horses would find grass up to tJon does wear heavily on tired nerves. 3000 feet and could probably be taken Tiiere js no such thing as shopping, up to the snow line. It would proba- 'exccpt to buy now and then, an extra blr take three days to reach the sum-c-nar or shirtwaist, and so the collect- mit after arriving at the base of the in? of SOUvenlrs is a diversion that even mountain. (the most tired take to In a few days. The two surveyors say, in the lat : Heretofore the angel fish has had the number of the National Geographic 1 cajj as the most characteristic of the Magazine, that the great labor of tha : Bermuda souvenirs, undertaking would be the long and J Cut the angel fish, in point of real difficult Journey to the base of the interest, has to stop or swim aside for mountain. It would not be surprising , tne souvenirs marked "P. O. YvV if a party should reach the mountain j prisoner of war. Every souvenir store, so exhausted by chopping trails, tra- . every jewelry establishment, the drug versing swamps and the other difil- 'stores, the department stores and even cultles of the route that, they could not . the laundries and photograph galler undergo the further fatigue of climb- ' ies in short, every plarce which a tour ing. Experience thus far shows that jst from the United States or Canada the terrible work s of advancing jS likely to visit has "Boer souvenirs." through this region and the incc3ont The Boers, finding time hansring annoyance of mosquitoc3 have a telV: heavy on their hands, carved all mail ing effect on the strength of men In r.er of canes, little picture frames, toys; the course of "even -a few mountain paper folders and such like things' from climbing expeditions' Is surprisingly the cedar, and then with such oil or large. The surveyors suggest one "of grease as they could find in their ra three routes. . jtions polished the wood "until it has If the mountain were approach5d by ' in many instances all llhe beauty of "way of Cook InlotMtMs thought tr.e work done under more favorable cir- cost would approximate $15,000 for a cv.xr.star.ces. 1 party of ten men. If the party should j Thre are canes with dogs' heads, go to Dawron by rail and steamer, and ' ornamented with tin bands, from the thence down the Mkon to the Tanana, cans in which their rations .came, and whence ihe journey would be south to others with bone tips,, the bones com the mountain, th, cost would proba-, insr from the steers . "or sheeD which fun at the rate of about J2.C0O a day. i" , re me.r lWu., ,in ere cut, a sra . . . J The surveyor, however, regard these bleached and polished until they are iu lianara nirth.ni xtuy tno pian?, which they describe In de- white as the coral rock. ' One of . the An Interesting story which has never ta,n ar1 which would involve only one Boers came in from .Hawkins Island before gotten Into print Is told by a j summer Maron ,s not wholly satis- one day with some cedar penholders iiic in ui i.u n tit .x& awiicxiit a. x i:c isirrri- : . . jeciurer iainy capiurca Aiianxa on a They think the base of the which his companions -had carved. On visit there a few years ago, and among those who enjoyed Mr. Markham. and delightfully entertained him. was Mrs. John King Ottley, one of the recog nized brilliant women of .that cltj Mrs. Ottley had the lion of the hour ! to spend the day at her hospitable j r.orne. and Invited clever appreciative women to meet him. Then, when she fancied that he had talked himself luc-u, am.- umini nun iu reure inr 1 a while to a mom upstairs and He down and rest. Mr. Markham. uncon mountain could not be reached earlior tha nthe firrt or middle of July, when the summit is usually shrouded in clouds and other conditions are un favorable, and that by either of these routes the energj- of the members of each end of the holder was a hand per fectly carved. One held a closed book. The other grasped the end of a small cannon, .over whV?h the pen was to ba fitted. "This," said the . prisoner of war, ."Is the party might be reduced to so low particularly a Boer souvenir. It typi an ebb that the men would - rot be fics the common remark we used to equal to the task of making the as- hpar when the war broke out, that we rent. ; fight with the Bible In one hand and The writers believe ths.t stsccess coull a irun in the other.'" , .. a be assured only by wintering a party in A few- of the prisoners were artisans the regioa and transporting- provls- cf grsat skill. With no other tools ions bape of the . 1 the thnnhff,,! 'tt i mountain during the winter and early .have made of two English ; S- J. srrinr. when dors could be us ' which are almost the exact si result c,f hi, HP,fn v- , objrctl.-n to the p'an is. of co-irs. flw ver quarters, complete knives. rruest-hnow of in. ,A.tAe. time that would be require- coins have been cut Into strlp3, thnuirht V... heavy additional expense. The cost when trimmed and the edges rmi - o.i would probably be not less than ?23,- ,havxe made the sides-of the ""-V"Z'?Z 'l icCP. spring, and the blade, w ....- v. v n. 1 1. .vtvtr.i b i aula in iiitr, 1 as follows: "Love will outwatch the stars." 'The stars bend to the strong." "Whatever I do to another. I do to myself." "The chief business of progress is to translate symbol Into fact." "Fraternity! It will be the answer of man to the prayer of God." "We have committed the golden rule to memory"; let us now commit It to life." "Every attainment is only a for the night." Mr. Markham now makes his home on Staten Inland, where he escapes the throng of visitors to whom in his kindliness he 'could never refuse ad mittance hen In New York whe-re he was an easy prey. New York. Fe. 6. than a knife, and 'perhaps a file, they shillings, ze of sil- The rhich, smoothed. handle, hile the The advantage of the p!an would ba pieces have been used for rivets that the strength of the men would be conserved for the actual ascent, which It is on the Walsingharn estate, not far from the Walsingharn lane, and bears each year a crop of calabashes as larre . as cocoanuts. and with a brown shell that can be carved and polished effectively. These calabashes are sold everywhere by the souvenir venders. Rarely is it possible to find one which may be traced to the tree under which the poet used to sit. But the calabash 13 not a native tree on the Islands, and for that reason the baskets, tobacco holders and other ar ticles made from Its dried shell are. not held in high regard as essentially Bermuda souvenirs. The pig is one of the early inhabi tants of the islands, and because of fhe fact he figures in the suvenir busi ness. When Juan Bermuda landed on the islands he found the land overrun with swine. The original inhabitants had been captured and carried away to be sold as slaves, and for years the hogs had had sole possession. A hun dred 'years ago the coins in use here bore recognition of this fact, for on one side they had the image of a well fed porker. This was known as "hog money," and there are in the collections of coins numerous samples of -'it to be seen now, although it has wholly gonejiut of use. Reproductions of these copper coins are now made for souvenirs, and miniatures on scarfplns, breastpins and bracelets are counted of especial interest. Small gold pigs, with ruby eyes, and sometimes set with diamonds, are found in many souvenir stores, and watch charms with the pig as the sole adornment are as common as cala bashes. " There Is one other distinctively Ber mudan product- which rivals all the other souvenirs in its beauty, and that is the "lvvcky shell," or "lucky stones," as the nativest call them. They are minute shells, which are found in small quantities on the few sandy beaches. The natives who search for them have a tradition that they bring good luck to any one who either finds them or se cures them as a gift. To buy one spoils the charm. Of course, the keep ers of souvenir stores do not share this belief. The coral reefs and the minor growths of the same nature which are found all about the waters of the bays and sounds are prolific for the souven ir hunter. There is a flavor of the literary among these who sell' these articles. Even among the colored folks who have little stores in out of the way corners. They have- learned from visitors doubtless, that when "The Tempest" was written Shakespeare had In mind the wreck of the ship Sea Venture out on the reefs, and they ap propriate, as strictly Bermudan, the li-es: i . . -. Full fathoms five thy father lives; Of his bones are coral made. Some will even .tell the visitor that this refers to "Five Fathom Hole,' the place where the ships anchor over night when they do not reach a pilot boat before dark, and they produce coral l'rcm the vei-y reef on which the ship Sea Venture was wrecked. They quote the poetry to every purchaser. J. E. -.'art land t antTa Mereli iior Greensboro, N. C. our ime ror this spring Is compo sed of all the latest goods, fcith for and domestic. We shall be pleased to serve you, guaranteeing perfect s.t. isfaction. - Good flee Wanted ; Salaries Guaranteed for One Man in Each County in North Carolina. . -r No man wanted who cannot furnish be.t references and prove his ability to work, v? " Men will be placed on salaries and not on . jcommission. If you have a g'ood mind and want to make money, address at once J D. BO US HAL L, Manager iEtna Life Ins. Co., .Raleigh, N. C. -'' Quality, Not Price Is the chief consideration with as In tujlng oar drugs. Th hest tr.nj an buy is used in compounding prescrlptmn.4 at Jhis tor. You m.ij ture of always getting what the d octor-prescriliet if you buj; of us, IbA) m minute, and you'll see hnxr important this la. BOB B ITT-WYNNE DRUG CO., C?3rT,tllls,r"1 s k IIALKHJII, 1. 1. JuVy of Awards et the Fan-Amerlcnn Expr?ition appoint td to pnss uroa the merits of the art.clti exhibited have pronounce J: yhe Jnderwood Vg Fastest, Vftst StronosJ. Ec Simplest, . V?c most Complcto and the Most Practical Typewrite Madd nniTEH in mnc tpor Catalojrua writ to R.. L. LINDSEY, State Acent. ' DURHAM. N. Oi might be undertaken in Juno, condition"? are most favorable. v.-hn camp HIGHEST PEAK IN NORTH AMERICA Alfred II. Croks and D. Reabarn, of the United States Geological Sur vey. made a reconnaissance survey In Alaska last summer, from the Pacific Coast through the Alaskan range and along Its western base to waters flow ing into the Yukon. Their route lay close to the foot of " Mount McKinley. but they had time only to climb Its slopes to the snow line. It will be remembered that Mount McKinley. the highest peak In North America, was discovered to the east of Cook Inlet several years ago by a mining prospector, who sent his map to the New York Sun. The mountain, which is in Intrude 53 degrees 4 seconds north and longi tude 151 degrees west, is nearly in the centre of the Alaskan ransre. .the rug ged mountain mass that extends to the northeast from the region west or Cook Inlet. The range forms the water parting between rivers flowin-r to Cook Inlet on the southeast and those flowing to the Yukon on the northwest. The j south end of the range has not been Some dozens of these have found their way to the market, each engraved on the handle on one side "Bermuda, JDC2," and on the other the inevitable letifrs in which they seem to g-lory, "P. O. W." Some have the name of the maker also carved on them, and with all this there is enough of the surface of the coin left so there is no mistaking that the material is from the original shilling. They are works of real art, and are eagerly snapped up by tourists at three or four shillings ac!ece. . them a woman, was -observed on the Among the captive Boers who were great high road which leads, from Paris broUght here were about 100 boys, rang to Cherbourg, coming from the direc- insr from 8 to . . Th.v Romance o m t'Ana JIId: fParis Letter to the London Mail.) A curious and most romantic incl- ! dent is reported to have happened near Evreux (Cure) a few. days ago. Be tween 6 and 7 p. r.. a rnotor car, minus the regulation number and letter, In which were four pasenjers, one of The Rev. T. IT. Konblon. who is the vicar of Wantage, the English home of Richard Crokor. has been appointed canon of Christ Church and archdea con of Oxford. It is said that Mr. Croker .worked hard for his appoint ment. ' Sir Francis Drakewas planning to de stroy the invincible Armada. . "But," warned the contains, "they are sunarior in numbers." . "I know," replied the admiral, "but I shall lace aboard each vessel one fool to rock the boat." Fearing such a fate, however, the J Spaniards preferred to drive their ships ashore in the prale. Xew York , Tribune. i Agents 0 fMP Write In JmSm Information Every As3 And I Own Pat March 16 and Nov. 9, 189 IPriTT Pat March 16 and Nov. 9, i8? Pat in CaaadaNov. a, 1897. . . TO SELL THE Non-poisonous Potato, Squash and Plant-eating Pests Insecticide. HARTWARD HARDWARE Other CO., RALEIGH, N. C. tlon of L'Hotellerle. (Calvados). While the motor car was In the Com mune of Fontalne-le Souvet it was seen to stop, and one of the-occupants got down with a bulky parcel in his arms, which he placed on the! roadside not far from a farm.- When ' he had taken his seat again the car moved off. rut on Hinson Island and sent to school. Sirre their departure, the two or three small houses on that island have been, .eagerly ransacked for sou venirs. In one' of these structures were found a numebr of small bags of t rough cotton cloth, filled with reddish ain. ix pieasea tne fancy or those who but it did not leave thevlclnlty until found them to imagine that they were two peasants on their way home stop-! samples of genuine South African pea to examme tne curious bunaie. at earth, brought here by the youngsters lhat moment the motor car darted off that they might have with them a bft at full speed In the direction-of Paris. :0f their native soil. When the laborers picked up the J This made a very pretty story, and parcel they discovered that" It was a as there is no means of proving that cradle, containing ' a newlyborn child, it is not true, It is just about as satis and they decided Ho take It to the factory to the particular party of tour Mayor. One of them," however, sug- ists that found the little sandbags as gested that It would be advisable first .if backed by conclusive evidence, to take the cradle into the nearest , "Tom Moore Souvenirs' take high house, so as to have a closer look attt rank among the collectors, particularly with a view to finding- scjpe'cjue to Its among those who have literary tastes, identification. Ills astonishment may The house where Moore lived, or, at be guessed wh.en he found pinned be- any rate, where he spent much of' his neath the baby u pilUoW, fourteen bank time during the period when he was notes of $200 each, representing a sum connected with the 'Colonial Secretary's of $:S0O. to which, was attached a sheet office, Is still in reasonably good state of paper bearing the words: or repair. The newel posts have been "Whoever will take care" of this child whittled away by the souvenir hunters, until its majority will have good for- and scraps of the fine old cedar beams tun? assured to him during- bl3 life.- and boards have been cut out by 'the time, on the express condition that he same class of vandals. This has all never seekj to penetrate' the secret of been stopped now, for there is some the birth of the child, the issue of one . one always on hand to prevent that of the noblest families ot England." j sort of work when visitors go through The happy laborer. ? evidently con- ; the house. Moore's calabash-tree "un sldering that the stipulation was a der which he wrote all his poem's " as light one, took the child tinder his arm. 1 the negro boy who acts as guid' ex put the notes in his ppeket. Rnd re- J plains, is still standing and is in thriv sumed his homeward-Journey. I in: condition. I ' . ' . MUTUAL LIFE INS. COMPANY Of Philadelphia. ASSETS OVER FIFTY MILLIOiNS. SURPLUS OVER SIX MILLIONS. Commenced Doing Business in 1847; in North Carolina in 1874. THE BEST COMPANY FOR THE INJURED,, THEREFORE, THE BEST FOR THE AGENT. evera, So ecia iits Wanted. MOST LIBERAL CONTRACTS TO DESERVING MtX' Agents , can do more business for THE PENN than for any other company. 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